Vacuum Drying of Wood with Radiative Heating: I. Experimental Procedure

AIChE Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 97-107

  Perré, Patrick ^a   Mosnier, Stéphane ^a   Turner, Ian W ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Technologies et Industries du Bois   (France)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beech; Fir; Heartwood; Local temperature and pressure measurements; Sapwood; Spruce

Indexed keywords

DRYING; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WOOD;

DATA SETS; VACUUM DRYING;

VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

DRYING; HEATING; RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VACUUM; WOOD;

ABIES; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEECH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESICCATION; EXPERIMENT; HEATING; MODEL; NORWAY SPRUCE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VACUUM; WATER VAPOR; WOOD;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 1042279554     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10009     Document Type: Article

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